One pays you the other just data mines you, i guess the incentive is there...

Its like those bounties that pay you when posting in the "classic" social networks, but with the payment system built in. You pay and get paid for views, likes and comments. But in their token which might not make it such a good deal after all...

Well i suppose some people will try their best to "pull their friends out" the common networks, but its always the "social" factor the hard one. People won't easily change, "my friends are there"...

Its actually easier when you DON'T use any of the classic networks, you got "nothing to lose". Reminds me of people's Windows addiction...

They mention blockchain but not Bitcoin. This is not "adoption", you can make plenty of garbage projects using "a blockchain".

If they make a State backed central fiat like cryptocoin, it won't make any difference to Yuans. Its perhaps worse than those. Its actually a disturbing trend, the complete opposite to Bitcoin's freedom.

Hopefully, when "studying the subject" some more people will inevitable learn about Bitcoin and the freedom it grants, so it may indirectly subvert a bit the state oppression, if only the people learn there is this money out there controlled by no one...

Just imagine the day the money and State become separate, but not controlled by 4 banks as in Hong Kong...

Bitcoin went from zero to whatever price it has when you read this. Companies can have similar performance, perhaps in a different timespan. But the key difference is the time of investment. You say this company is already big, so its probably getting in with an already high price. But when the company is small and unknown, and nobody believes in it, at that point is cheap and those investing that early have the highest potential of profit in the long run. Think Apple in the 70ies, two kids in a garage, they went to a third person that invested big, but quickly withdraw. Boy did he "lost" good. Its like buying bitcoin when it was 3¢ then sell it all when it reached 1$ (100¢), after all its 33 times its value...

Those large companies, say its stock starts at 50$, suppose it goes to 250$, thats 5 times, not bad but not stellar.

Once the company decides to "go public", it might be too late for spectacular gains, you could say its mature. It might get you profit, just don't expect miracles.

I suppose in this case, those that invested at the earliest were probably the Saudi monarchy themselves. That country knows oil won't be such a good business forever, and has already taken steps in diversification, unlike the complete idiots that rule over my country that ran it into misery.

Imagine that you invest in bitcoin now, and it reaches 18k (2x) that's not bad, but its not stellar either. It matured. As always, those that invest earliest (and risked more), have the chance to gain more.

It can't. If you are using S9s, you should try booting braiinsOS from the sd card, and see for yourself. Remember bOS only works from S9 to S9i, nothing later (no Hydro, K or SE).

Once you boot BraiinsOS and see everything is working, you could try flashing it to nand (from its Web UI) and see if it works, if it does, you can then go back to Bitmain's using their sd T9+ image firmware method.

One weakness tho, would be the controller flash nand storage. I don't know how evil that malware is, but it is theoretically possible to force damage the nand by endlessly writing data to it. Most damaged flash media still allows reading, which would be perfect for a very unethical thief...

Sometimes people come saying they can't mysteriously install to nand anymore (and obviously Bitmain firmware never restores).

Bitmain fw only blindly copies itself to nand, if the nand is damaged that does nothing. But bOS can run without nand, with the jp4 jumper eternally moved into the boot from sd position. Just buy the cheapest smallest sd card you can find.

No, smart people should move to Taiwan. Hong Kong doesn't have an American fleet cushioning an invasion, Hong Kong is already a lost cause.

Of course, Chinese people have been emigrating en mass for decades. Saw that container found full of (Chinese) dead people in UK? Just for how long do you think this has been going? Half a century or more... People are willing to risk it all to escape oppressive regimes, and they know many die to never achieve their dreams. Those that make it are often exploited to levels of slavery. They hope their sacrifice would somehow help their family back home, with money or escaping, rinse and repeat.

China has the largest population, and the largest emigration. But you see the same pattern repeat all over the world, North Korea, Morocco, Cuba, you name it.

"Forbidding" talk, discussion and debate about anything is morally unacceptable. Its simply State oppression, no matter what color or "ideology" they paint it with, it is the very same.

That government is not unstable, its just another police oppressive state. Not unlike what China has always had for thousands of years... As long as their military stick to obeying orders from their leaders, and this is the largest military force in the world.

What is there to love from State oppression? Tho admittedly that has been human's history, with varying degrees of "freedom". Even in China, you are now able to do almost anything as long as you don't touch politics. Just like monarchies. Too bad when the State decides where you can and where you cannot go, or if you are even eligible to do so...

In feudal times, you weren't even allowed to leave the feud, the small region you were born. Vassals belonged to the lord, only the lord could decide for you. Well now the lord is the State.

Actually there is only a small subset of merchants that need this "3 secs transaction". Many things can be bought with a day long transaction just fine, its just the typical coffee thing. In general, anything bought online can wait a day or so perfectly fine.

Gold is actually more cumbersome, if there was a merchant willing to take it directly, you would need to take it there which is risky, and the merchant would have check it to see if its not fake or low quality, weight etc..

In "good" days bitcoin transactions confirm in under 1 hour, which is fine for most things. In "bad" days it may take a day or so. I haven't seen the early 2018 mess repeat again.

Offchain "micro" transactions should also help reduce traffic somewhat for onchain transactions. Its not perfect, but it does fit that need. Yes i know LN transactions eventually get consolidated onchain. Perhaps there was a better way to design this.

Beyond legal/accounting reasons, i don't see why most merchants don't just adopt Bitcoin, and some other altcoins to look "trendy/fashionable".

The way i see it, once the major wallets adopt LN, it will "just happen". But we will see how this gets implemented and if it is user friendly enough. To me, LN transactions should be exceptional, not default.

What has sensor detection anything to do with the presence of fans? The correct option is min-fans":"0"

Leave the sensors alone if they work fine...

This is out of code, its unenforceable and unnecessary. The network will self adjust regardless of how much hashrate remains, always. Doesn't matter where the Geo-location of nodes it, the code doesn't care and shouldn't care because this could be faked or hidden anyway.

So what if you shut off the "4 main pools", again the network would adapt, assuming that a good portion of that hash rate doesn't migrate to the remaining pools which is highly probable.

Go back and rewrite the blockchain is not possible, you would cause a hard fork. And Ethereum already did the unthinkable anyway, they earned their stigma after that incident. Bitcoin never will.

To successfully pull a 51% attack you will probably need to spend far more money than any possible gains of doing so, especially in the largest blockchain with the highest hashrate on Earth.

Some "whales" have already tried, it didn't end too well to them.

Bitcoin has a chance to change and adapt, it has changed a bit since the beginning.

The only major change i could foresee at some point, is changing from its classic sha256 crypto algorithm to a quantum crypto algorithm. Perhaps in a 100 years. There could be another coin to do the same thing, of course. This is only after quantum computing reaches mass production and the masses. We may not even be here to see it, but it should occur before the last bitcoin is minted in 2140.

As opposed to bank interest, trading shouldn't be the answer. You CAN trade with fiat, in the so called forex market. No, the correct counterpoint would be: Not losing value overtime, in fact, gain. It is a small gain, as it is a deflationary coin, with limited production that no one can order increase the amount suddenly by executive order when the yearly budget doesn't fit...

You could say that "the interest is built in", but the correct answer is, all fiats are losing value intentionally promoted by the dominating school of economy, afraid that deflation would stop the getting in debt craze that they insist slavering the people into.

I think Bitcoin and the Austrian school of economy will have to come together. there are too many fools here that still fear deflation, they simply haven't read any Austrians, they think the world is what the Chicago boys said, and nothing else exists. Well it does, banks shouldn't be paying you interest if you are not lending; your money keeps its purchasing power on its own you should only spend what you have, and not what you "could" have, as the vapor economy of today insists.

I'd say bad, because in a retrospective, Satoshi foolishly released a windows only wallet. This lost me interest, two years earlier i said goodbye to windows, and never went back to it ever since. Yes, with the code available it was ported later but during that time i was busy with my job and didn't care about it until it was too late for me to be able to just buy and hold. The economy in this country collapsed due the eternal politician idiocy, the fact that they can cause a disaster and have the weaponry to remain eternally in power unchecked.

In 2013 i played with Dogecoin which indirectly made me learn about Bitcoin, but we no longer had access to foreign currency, and there was no path to buy, even if you could, it would amount to a few satoshis anyway.

And things only got much much worse.
 
This is why, you cannot trust people. Do not trust, this is what makes bitcoin strong. No surprises, all is code.

Let all fiat and Chicago school inflationary economies fall, the sooner the better. No more debt, no more fractional reserve banking, no more bubbles.

So if they tax crypto, how will they do it? At the exchange? What if you use an exchange from another country?

Or they expect everyone to be nice and declare their assets willingly?

My country gov also licensed some exchanges and even set up one themselves, but no one uses it. In theory, nobody should be "sending" money from abroad without paying some tax, and they do tax the likes of Western Union.

Since the beginning i always found the idea of taxing Bitcoin nearly impossible. Even if you willingly surrender your data, you can always keep "hidden" wallets undeclared. The money doesn't really ever cross borders, while its all over the globe at the same time, so the idea of taxing based movement across borders is... silly.

But maybe they plan to give some consumer protection from rogue exchanges. As long as the use of local exchanges is voluntary it shouldn't be too bad. They would also be able to tax those exchanges directly and their clients, perhaps take a cut from the exchange fees.

And it would be a laughable joke to legalize mining in the country with the most expensive electricity in the world. Hello from the country with the cheapest electricity! We don't have many large miners either, its too risky, unless you somehow have ties with those in power...

The question should have been: "Best Laptop for Linux?". You are not going to ever do anything serious (or safe) using windows or osx.

It will also trigger many excellent answers if you search exactly that, some even sell those pre-installed, but you can always install your own distro, such as Tails.

Who will "win" the "economic war" initiated by Trump, is China feeling "anything" after Trump decided to unilaterally rise taxes to all Chinese goods? Did sales slowdown, has the Chinese economy felt ANY consequences? Or is it Trump delusions that will fade away when he leaves office next year or in 2024?

So does Alcohol and Tobacco, and yet those are "legal". Perhaps there was no big lobbying for cannabis back then?

Just let the tobacco industry add cannabis products, that will probably trigger their lobbying machinery. Consumers will get mass produced cannabis cigarettes, and apply the very same rules (no smoking in public spaces, etc).

Can you imagine 800 pages of something as silly as flat earth? You have it all wrong, clearly the world is on the back of a turtle moving thru space. Just be thankful its not a Thoroid, Homer would be pleased...

This is a form of regulation. Is it illegal to smoke outside of these coffeeshops? In my country it is illegal but not terribly difficult to find (or smell). I don't encourage its use but i'm in favor of legalization. Was it Australia that also had the coffeshop thing, where you are restricted only to those designated places if you want to smoke, but anywhere else is illegal?

Just like tobacco smoking is banned from public places unless the area is designated for it in many countries/cities.

Well the whole "moba" concept came from the maker of DOTA (Warcraft 3 mod), who started it with an earlier mod for Starcraft. And he was hired by Valve to make Dota 2, so naturally it shows in game mechanics.

There were other mobas such as HoN, but they are all copying the idea of this person. This game style has attracted so many people and even professional e-gamers worldwide.

I have a bit of disdain when they attain this "pro" level, as people start getting too serious and end being more stressed than having fun. But yeah i get this type of player, tho i don't particularly get involved much to keep peace of mind.

LoL is, well Korean cash cow? They made it more attractive to newbies both in visual and game mechanics, and it is perhaps more fun and less pro, not sure (heroes being able to do anything and less specialized as in dota). It also happens to have shorter matches, that might also matter.

Play what you have most fun with... But remember who the original is. Its like Bitcoin vs altcoins, Satoshi vs the rest :3

5 and 6 for me. I think, with 5 (originally unreleased in America) they made the mistake of give full freedom to character occupation development, you can literally spend months having all your characters learn everything from all classes if you want. This was more or less fixated in 6, and i think all the other games.

It is, too tempting not to have your fighter/rogue be also a mage, healer, summoner, mimic or what not lol.

6 story is too good, there is in an opera in there lol. Of course the earlier ones are nice as well, tho i guess you'd need a guide for full completion.

Those years where Enix was an actual rival, also had interesting things like the Tales series the very first one Tales of Phantasia was nice, and the first two Star Ocean games.

Someday i hope to have time to play games again, or perhaps online it is, if i manage to live in a place with good connectivity unlike now.

Isn't it this way for most things the State does? Money, Food, Human behavior?

One of the cannabis family was traditionally used for fabric, i suppose they still allow this use?

The plants, all of them developed different ways to fight plagues. Some are poisonous to humans, some not so much, but they themselves are innocent. Coca leaves are pretty much innocuous, even beneficial in high altitudes, yet some people process them in some industrial process to extract a substance that makes people crazy. Some other plants like Cannabis are strong enough in its natural state to produce some effect without extracting and concentrating (tho i imagine there are drugs developed for medical use as pain relief etc).

Nobody stops to think of the plants, it only wants to live, not get eaten by bugs, thats why they developed that poison in the first place.

Recreational use, well i guess, if nobody gets harmed, but humans aren't the most disciplined of creatures, especially when under the effect of mild doses of bug poison that doesn't quite kill humans but make them feel "great" or whatever.

If you accept the State, you are already accepting a form of slavery. No use citing the very thing that made it: Constitution.

Yes you can do something go to sleep. Check next week, next month, or next year.

I know bitcoin will recover. The rest? Maybe, probably not. depending on project. Several are destined to end.

BTC will have the price the market decides and this is the best price, over time. Fluctuation will tend to slow down with time, but it needs more years and decades. It is possible that we have already seen the most high price in decades to come, but that is fine. Bitcoin is naturally destined to rise in price in opposite direction the the fiat government induced devaluation, so at least 2% yearly. But that is of course at the top of the graph, maybe after the year 2140 when the last coin is "minted".

Before that you should expect slowing of price increases. Still rising, but slower, over time. Please zoom out and see the entire picture, not just the last week or month, look at years, the whole decade. You should be able to recognize this logarithm curve, that starts up very quickly, nearly vertical then makes a curve that slows down over time. See if there are other assets with similar behavior, assets that tend to be limited in nature...

Its down, means its free of intervention, this is beautiful. Your chance to buy, rejoice!